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Oh Dear, oh dare, oh deer.

In 1565, fifteen-year-old Helena Snachenberg from Sweden became Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth the First. Helena must have been quite a girl, as she married a Marquess, and then a Sir Thomas. She died aged 86, leaving ninety-eight descendants! She and her Sir lie together in Salisbury cathedral. The cathedral has surprising memorials. AContinue reading “Oh Dear, oh dare, oh deer.”

Good men, and bad

In the calm of Sunday morning Worcester, two walkers came across an older man crumpled up against a low wall. How easy it would have been to assume just another drunk, or worse. But these Samaritans checked the man was okay. He wasn’t; even pacemakers can go offshore sometimes. The ambulance siren shattered the earlyContinue reading “Good men, and bad”